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Africans illegally enslaved

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Africans illegally enslaved

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A legal argument contests the enslavement of Africans

📅 17 February 1887

In “O Africano é livre,” A Redempção advanced a legal argument based on the 1831 prohibition of the transatlantic slave trade to challenge the enslavement of Africans. Abolitionists used the law’s...